Tie and rail-fastener.



A. GABLBR.

TIE AND RAIL FASTENER.

APPLIGATION FILED NOV. 22, 1912.

1,055,896, Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW GABLER, OF MILLVALE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH J. GABLER, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

TIE AND RAIL-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

Application filed November 22, 1912. Serial No. 732,810.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW GABLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Millvale, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ties and Rail- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ties and rail fasteners, and the objects of my invention are to provide a strong and durable metallic tie that affords sufficient bearing surface for railsfand to furnish a tie with novel fasteners for preventing vertical and lateral displacement of rails mounted thereon.

Further objects of my invention are to provide a metallic tie composed of channel bars secured together in a manner that prevents the bars from spreading, and to accomplish the above results by a mechanical construction that is inexpensive to manufacture, easy to install by unskilled labor and highly efficient for supporting the great weight of rolling stock.

With the above and other objects in View the invention resides in the novel construc tion, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed.

Reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein like numerals denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a tie partly broken away to clearly show the fasteners, Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view taken on the line II-II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view taken on the line IIIIII of Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail perspective views of connecting members for the parts of the tie. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a connecting member for fasteners. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of one of the fasteners, and Fig. 8 is a similar View of a detached fas tener.

A tie in accordance with this invention comprises two spaced apart channel bars 1 and 2 arranged back to back, thereby providing outwardly extending top flanges 3 and outwardly extending bottom flanges 1 that form the base of the tie and permit of said tie being firmly tamped in the ballast of a roadbed. The top flanges 3 are adapted to support the base flanges 5 of rails 6, and

as the construction at the ends of the tie is identical I deem it only necessary to describe the manner of connecting the channel bars and the fasteners at one end of the tie.

Arranged between the channel bars 1 and 2 are the depending webs 7 of fasteners 8 that extend over the base flanges 5 of the rail 6, said fasteners resting upon the top flanges 3 of the tie with the webs of said fasteners abutting, as at 9 directly beneath the rail. The abutting edges of the webs 7 are cut away, as at 10 whereby an inverted U-shaped connecting or coupling member 11 can be placed in the cut away portions of the webs 7 to lock the fasteners together, as shown at the righthand side of Fig. 1. The member 11 prevents longitudinal displacement of the fasteners 8 and said rail is held and prevented from tilting by the weight of rolling stock passing over the same.

The channel bars 1 and 2 are connected together, adjacent to the ends thereof and said channel bars have transversely alining openings 12 to receive the body 13 of a connecting member, which has a head 14 engaging the outer side of the channel bar 2, between the flanges 3 and 1 thereof, as best shown in Fig. 2. The body 13 is provided with parallel tongues 15 that extend outwardly from the channel bar 1, in engagement with the top and. bottom flanges thereof. These tongues fit in recesses 16 of an H-shaped connecting member 17 that is placed against the body 13 in the channel bar 1. The connecting members have transversely alining openings 18 and extending through said openings is a bolt 19 that is provided with a nut 20. The member 17 is not only locked in engagement with the body 13, but is locked against the outer sides of the channel bar 1, by reason of the member 17 corresponding in length to the head 1 1 and extending onto the outer side of the channel bar.

In Fig. 8 there is illustrated a double rail fastener 21 that can be used in connection with cross-overs, frogs and at such places where it is necessary to hold one rail in proximity to another.

It is thought that the utility of the tie and rail fastener in accordance with this invention will be apparent without further description and while in the drawing there is illustrated the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that'the structural elements are susceptible to such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended. claims.

1. In a metallic tie and rail fastener, the combination with rails, of spaced apart channel bars supporting said rails, connecting members extending through said bars and provided with tongues H shape'd members receiving said tongues and connected to said connecting members and retaining said 5 members in engagement with said bars,-andmeans arranged between said bars and engaging said rails for retaining said rails upon said bars.-

2. The combination w'ith channelbars' and rails supported thereby, of fasteners engaging the base flanges of said rails, depending webs carried by sa id fasteners and extending between said bars, inverted U- shaped members connecting the webs of said fasteners between said bars, and means adjacent to said fasteners for connecting said bars.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

" 'ANDREW GABLER.

Witnesses i MAX H. SRoL0vrrz, KATHERINE ERRETT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissiener of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

